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Product DescriptionLooking at Movies, Second Edition, offers students everything they need to understand and appreciate film: a visually dynamic presentation, more help with film analysis than any other text, and a sophisticated and integrated media package featuring nearly four hours of moving-image content. The text, DVDs, website, and writing guide package costs less than competing texts alone, making Looking at Movies an outstanding value for your students. Includes two DVDs, access to the student website, and a supplementary Writing About Movies guide. Also available as an eBook. .About the AuthorRichard Barsam (Ph.D., University of Southern California) is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of Nonfiction Film: A Critical History (rev., exp. ed. 1992), The Vision of Robert Flaherty: The Artist as Myth and Filmmaker (1988), In the Dark: A Primer for the Movies (1977), and Filmguide to "Triumph of the Will" (1975); editor of Nonfiction Film Theory and Criticism (1976); and contributing author to Paul Monaco’s The Sixties: 1960–1969 (Vol. 8, History of the American Cinema, 2001) and Filming Robert Flaherty’s "Louisiana Story": The Helen Van Dongen Diary (ed. Eva Orbanz, 1998). His articles and book reviews have appeared in Cinema Journal, Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Film Comment, Studies in Visual Communication, and Harper’s. He has been a member of the Executive Council of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the Editorial Board of Cinema Journal, and the Board of Advisers of the History of American Cinema series, and he cofounded the journal Persistence of Vision.